Week 1: Overview & Intro to ARM

Class Recaps:

Monday

  • Course Intro & Architecture Basics
  • Read Ch 1.2-1.5, 1.8 - Much of this should be review from CS160

Tuesday

Wednesday

  • ARM & ARMSIM Intro
  • ARM Intro Worksheet
  • References:
    • Davespace and Azaria ARM Tutorials (see ARM References links at top of page) will be relevant for many ARM topics.
    • ARM Immediate Value Encoding guide - has calculator at bottom.

Friday

  • ARM - Shifts, Multiply & Divide???
  • ARM Shift/Multiply Worksheet

On your own review

  • Next week we will be learning about the kinds of circuits that are used to implement the functionality of a computer. If you are not already familiar with AND, OR, XOR and the idea of a logic gate, you should review Ch5 of the CS160 reader this week: CS160Reader Ch5

Classroom slides/examples:

Directory of files from the week
Right click files and save to your computer

Optional Extras:

Video on chip fabrication: